Yulia Pinkusevich

Yulia Pinkusevich (born 1982, Kharkov, Ukraine) is a visual artist working across various disciplines including painting, drawing, and sculpture. Yulia is represented by Kent Fine Art in New York.^[1]

Early life and education

Born in the USSR Yulia moved at the age of 9 to New York City. Pinkusevich’s world view has been rooted in change as well as her ability to adapt and observe has served as a central tool for harnessing a unique and fluid vision. "Pinkusevich follows the footsteps of Kazimir Malevich defining his “additional element” as the quality of any new visual environment bringing about a change in perception …with a series of aerial views rendering the familiar landscape into an abstraction."^[2]

Work

Yulia Pinkusevich creates large-scale multi-faceted installation work that presents viewers with visually immersive environments.^[3] The installations are grounded in her practice of questioning and studying changes, by exploring population and architectural growth through aesthetics of design and urbanism. Her work is primarily focused on the perception of systems and attempts to tether seen and unseen forces acting upon the urban narrative.

In an interview, she explains that: "Conceptually, my work is concerned with this fragmented vision of architectural layering and perceptions of the built environment. Formally, the work is engaged with the direct experience of the viewer through "perspectival" illusion and spatial perception that play with the subconscious and cognitive understanding of space. By breaking logical perspectives I create illusions of impossible spaces, non-places that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic."^[4]

Recent Work

Yulia has exhibited nationally and internationally including site-specific projects executed in Paris, France and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been awarded residency grants from Facebook HQ, Recology (SF Dump), Cite des Arts International in Paris, Headlands Center for the Arts, Redux in South Carolina, Goldwell Open Air Museum and The Wurlitzer Foundation. She was also the recipient of The San Francisco Foundations 2011 Phelan, Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts as well as Stanford University SiCA’s Spark and ASSU Grants. Yulia’s work has been widely written about in various print publications, including The Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, The Columbian (Vancouver), Oman Tribune and the Gulf Times (Qatar). Other magazines include Ltd Arts, Dwell and Adbusters. Prominent online media includes KQED, Rhizome and Square Cylinder. Yulia has lectured at Stanford University and is currently Assistant Professor at Mills College. She lives and works in Oakland, California.^[5]

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